Posts in the “R.I.P.” category
A Letter From Vi
by angeliska on February 22, 2008
Vi Landry September 29, 1974 – February 18, 2008 VI LANDRY R.I.P. A Letter From Vi This is a letter written by Vi, sent to many of us just as she was finishing school. I hope it brings some comfort. (…)
Vi Landry R.I.P.
by angeliska on February 18, 2008
I just found out that my friend Vi Landry died today. She was driving to Alabama from New Orleans. It was a head-on collision. She was killed instantly. This morning, she was walking her dad’s dog along the water. She (…)
Hibernation Station
by angeliska on January 21, 2008
She used to wear her hair like you except when she was sleeping, and then she’d weave it on a loom of smoke and gold and breathing. Escape by Amy Earles She is one of my favorite artists. All I (…)
Chance Hall – R.I.P.
by angeliska on December 10, 2007
Chance Allan Cardwell Hall – R.I.P. January 17, 1974 – December 7, 2007 From the Waco Tribune-Herald: Chance Hall, 33, of Waco, passed away at his residence Friday, Dec. 7, 2007. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11, (…)
Powerful Ophelias
by angeliska on August 10, 2007
Somehow an entire month disappeared in the space of an hour, the longest minute where everything changed for my dearest girlhood companion- my poppy pomegranate princess, dew-drop hummingbird heart- as soon as I heard the news, my heart stopped, it (…)
Mother's Day
by angeliska on May 13, 2007
Mother’s Day is historically hard in general, for anyone whose mother is dead. It just feels like a holiday designed to remind you of an absence, if that’s the case – it is in mine. I know a lot of (…)
In Memoriam
by angeliska on January 25, 2007
Pandora Aurora Rose (Katherine Jeanine Hastings) July 22nd 1975 – January 25th 2005 Two years now you’ve been gone, and the ache hasn’t, the thought of you alone in the water- knowing that you’ll never hear this song, you would (…)
Epiphanies
by angeliska on January 6, 2007
Central Panel from the Epiphany Triptych of Hieronymus Bosch I am not able to let this go. These things must be addressed: not just random acts of violence happening somewhere else, far, far away to strangers, ignorable, avoidable- no. My (…)
Helen Hill – R.I.P.
by angeliska on January 5, 2007
Early Thursday morning, around 5:30am my friend Helen Hill was murdered in her home. Her dear husband Paul was shot, but is in stable condition. Their little boy Francis was unhurt, thank god.. I feel so much for him, and (…)
One Year
by angeliska on August 30, 2006
The enormity of all that has happened in the last 365 days is almost beyond my scope at this moment to fully absorb and relate. When I sit down to try and discuss it with myself quietly, I am consumed (…)
